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SARCOMAS

Definition: SARCOMAS

SARCOMAS

Plural

1. Of Sarcoma

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "SARCOMAS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1985. (references)

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Crosswords: SARCOMAS

Specialty definitions using "SARCOMAS": EpirubicinGenes, fosLeukemia Virus, FelineOncogene Proteins v-fosRetroviridae Proteins, Oncogenic, Retroviruses Type C, Mammalian. (references)
Etymologies containing "SARCOMAS": sarcoma. (references)

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Commercial Usage: SARCOMAS

DomainTitle

Books

  • American Cancer Society Atlas of Clinical Oncology: Soft Tissue Sarcomas (Book with CD-ROM) (reference)

  • Clinical Management of Soft Tissue Sarcomas (Cancer Treatment and Research: Ctar 29) (reference)

  • Cytopathology of sarcomas and other nonepithelial malignant tumors (reference)

  • Pediatric Cancer Sourcebook: Basic Consumer Health Information About Leukemias, Brain Tumors, Sarcomas (Health Reference Series) (reference)

  • Surgical Management of Soft Tissue Sarcomas (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Non-Fiction Usage: SARCOMAS

SubjectTopicQuote

Health

Included in this category are viruses implicated in cervical cancer, liver cancer, and certain lymphomas, leukemias, and sarcomas. (references)

Scientists use a variety of technical names to distinguish among the many different types of carcinomas, sarcomas, lymphomas, and leukemias. (references)

Sarcomas are cancers arising from cells found in the supporting tissues of the body such as bone, cartilage, fat, connective tissue, and muscle. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: SARCOMAS

"SARCOMAS" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 75.00% of the time. "SARCOMAS" is used about 4 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (plural)75%3202,518
Noun (proper)25%1339,140
                    Total100.00%4N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: SARCOMAS

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

sarcomas

11

soft tissue sarcomas

10

de moles partes sarcomas

4
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: SARCOMAS

Language Translations for "SARCOMAS"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Chinese 

  

肉瘤 (sarcoma). (various references)

   

German

  

Sarkoms. (various references)

   

Korean 

  

육종 (sarcoma). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

arcomassay.(various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: SARCOMAS

Derivations

Words ending with "SARCOMAS": carcinosarcomas, fibrosarcomas, lymphosarcomas, osteosarcomas, rhabdomyosarcomas. (additional references)


Misspellings

"SARCOMAS" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: sarcandas, sardoma, sarkandas, Seecoomar, sircome, turcomans. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: SARCOMAS

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-c-m-o-r-s-s"

-1 letter: sarcasm, sarcoma.

-2 letters: across, aromas, camass, caroms, macros, morass, samosa, scrams.

-3 letters: amass, aroma, camas, carom, casas, comas, corms, crams, crass, cross, maars, macro, marcs, massa, moras, omasa, orcas, roams, sacra, saros, scams, scars, scram, soars, somas, soras.

-4 letters: amas, arco, arcs, arms, cams, cars, casa, coma, corm, cors, coss, cram, maar, macs, marc, mars, mass, moas, mocs, mora, mors, moss, oars, ocas, orca, orcs, osar, ossa, rams, roam, rocs, roms, sacs, scam, scar, soar, soma, sora.

-5 letters: aas, ama, arc, arm, ars, ass, cam, car, cor, cos, mac, mar, mas, moa, moc, mor, mos, oar, oca, oms, ora, orc, ors, ram, ras, roc, rom, sac, som, sos.

 Words containing the letters "a-a-c-m-o-r-s-s"
 

+2 letters: sarcoplasm, sarcosomal, scalograms.

 

+3 letters: macroscales, maraschinos, mascarpones, masticators, sarcolemmas, sarcomatous, sarcoplasms.

 

+4 letters: achromatisms, anachronisms, astrocytomas, commissarial, commissariat, comparatists, emasculators, osteosarcoma, psychodramas, sarcomatoses, sarcomatosis, sarcoplasmic, scaramouches.

 

+5 letters: camerapersons, catastrophism, commissariats, elasmobranchs, fibrosarcomas, lowerclassman, masticatories, microanalyses, microanalysis, microanalysts, osteosarcomas, parochialisms, saccharomyces, sacerdotalism.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: SARCOMAS


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

53 41 52 43 4F 4D 41 53

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

...    .-    .-.    -.-.    ---    --    .-    ...

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010011 01000001 01010010 01000011 01001111 01001101 01000001 01010011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#83 &#65 &#82 &#67 &#79 &#77 &#65 &#83

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0053 0041 0052 0043 004F 004D 0041 0053

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

5335523749473553

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Quotations: Non-fiction
5. Usage Frequency
6. Expressions: Internet
7. Translations: Modern
8. Derivations
9. Anagrams
10. Orthography
11. Bibliography


  

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